Art of treating animal-heads.



` the presence of mucous substances contain# UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST FRED Bresser CLEVELAND, oHIo.

ART OF TRATING ANIMAL-HEADS.

To all whom. t may concern:

vBe it known that I, ERNEST FRED BLoss', a citizen of the United States, residing in Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementinthe Art of Treating Animal-Heads, of which the following is a specification. y

This invention relates to a process of treating the heads of animals to render the same t for use as food, and it consists in the method of treatment hereinafter more fully set forth and made the subi ect of claim. h

I n the` accompanying drawing which forms a part ofthis specification, Figure 1 is a front view of the head of a hog; Fig. .2- a side View of the same .after the cheeks, ears, iiesh and fat have been removed by the first step of the operation; Fig. 3 an inverted view of the upper portion of said head sh'owing the jawl removed as by the second-step of the process jFig. 4 a side view of one half -of the upper portion shown in said Fig. 3 when said portion is split as required by the third step of the process; Fig. 5 a View of the part shown in said Fig. l undergoing the fourth and nal step of the process; Fig. 6

a sectional view. of the rotary cutter used in' said fourth step; and Fig.,7 a'view of the part shown in Fig. 4- after ithasbeen treated and rendered tit forfoo/d f f It has been found to Ide impossible to use in their entirety the heads of beefcattle, hogs, sheep and goats for food owing to the existence in the upper part of the head just above the jaw'of a tract or part infected by ing material unfit to be permitted to remain in the presence of edible fats or flesh. This especialqif-ylnt part is the ethmoid and turbinated bones and the nasal passages in contact therewith and the mucous membranes `covering the same with the secretions adhering thereto.V These bones are somewhat spongy and are saturated and permeated with the infected and undesirable substances which should not be permitted to invade the edible or clean portions and which must be removed before this part of the head is fit for food. Owing to the diticulty of removing this 'infecting portion in a practical way it has become the custom prior to the present invention after the cheeks, ears, esh and exterior fat are cut 0E and the brain saved'to solve the problem by simply throwing theremainder of the upper portonof Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr, 22, 1913. Application 111e@ January 2, 1913. Serial No. 739,595. i

,the head into the grease .tank as entirely inl edible. But I have discovered, and herein my invention consists, that it is possible to remove entirely the turbinated and ethmo-id bones from the upper portion of the head together with all of the infected tract orpart 'without infecting the ,adjacent tissue, by means o f the cuttingand centrifugally throwing action of rapidly revolving cutters against which the upper portion of the head to be treated is brought after the same has been split to expose the nasal passages. This operation removes the turbinated and ethmoid bones completely from the remainder',

of the head, together with all infected mucous membranes and immediately adjacent tissue and acts to throw the broken up and severed material entirely away xfrom the edible portion of the head. The result is a large part of the head which has been hitherto deemed unfit for any food uses may be treated for food. Moreover the operation is onel which' can be practiced cheaply and rapidly so that it is an entirely practical method and cheap enough to be used. For it must be borne in mind that the entire value of this portion of the animals head is not great enough to justify a costly method of treatment, .while at the same time it is of sufficient value that it ought not to be treated as a waste or inferior product as has been the general usage. v

In the practice of this process the animals head, for example the hogs head such as is pictured in the front view, Fig. l, is first denuded ofthe skin, cheeks, ears and accessible fats and brought into the `condition shown in Fig. 2, which is the first step or operation. Thereafter the lower j aw A below the line X--X is removed which may-be treated in any of the well known ways and which subsequent treatment of the lower jaw forms no part of this process.` The upper jaw 'and brain Acase Bis split down the median line YYFigs. 1V and 3, into two halves, one of which is shown at Fig. 4 and the other of which is of course the couunterpart thereof. The infected tract consists of the turbinatedbone C and the ethmoid bone D, and the mucous surfaces F connected therewith. It is the purpose ,of this process to remove these entirely. leaving the upper portion of the head in the condition illustrated at Fig. '7. To do this, a half B of the upper portion of the head is presented to the-cutting action of rapidly revolving beat- Corrections in Letters PatentNo. 1,059,339.

ing knives E as illustrated in Fig. 5, said knives acting to cut out and throw away from the head the entire mucous surfaces and ethmoid and turbinated bones, leaving the upper portion of the head clean and wholesome as indicated in Fig. 7, and as fit for food as any other edible part of the animal. Special ,machinery forpresenting and holding the headsto the revolving cutters is not necessary as this may be done quite practically, successively and rapidly by hand. Specially formed cutters also are not required as the common rapidly revolving cutters ordinarily used in the packing house for dehairing or cleaning pigs feet may be employed for the purposes of this invention Copies of this patent may be obtained for [einen] i Signedand sealed this 20thiday of May, A. D., 1913.

if desired. The saving ell'ected by this in- I Witnesses; v

WM. HOFFMAN, G. G. VAN BUREN.

ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

is hereby certiied that in Letters Patent No. 1,059,389, granted April 22,l 1913, upon the yapplication of Ernest Fred Bloss, of Cleveland, Ollio,` forV an improvement in yThe JAart of Treating Animal-Heads, errors appear in theJ printed speci-v i. tication requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 11, for the W'Ord "successively read successfully; same page, line 19, forlthe Word valve read value; and that the saidvLetters Patent should be read with these corrections 'therein that the same may' conform kto the record of the case in the Patent Office.

ofc. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

yERNEST FRED BLoss.

Corrections in Letters PatentNo. 1,059,339.

ing knives E as illustrated in Fig. 5, said knives acting to cut out and throw away from the head the entire mucous surfaces and ethmoid and turbinated bones, leaving the upper portion of the head clean and wholesome as indicated in Fig. 7, and as fit for food as any other edible part of the animal. Special ,machinery forpresenting and holding the headsto the revolving cutters is not necessary as this may be done quite practically, successively and rapidly by hand. Specially formed cutters also are not required as the common rapidly revolving cutters ordinarily used in the packing house for dehairing or cleaning pigs feet may be employed for the purposes of this invention Copies of this patent may be obtained for [einen] i Signedand sealed this 20thiday of May, A. D., 1913.

if desired. The saving ell'ected by this in- I Witnesses; v

WM. HOFFMAN, G. G. VAN BUREN.

ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

is hereby certiied that in Letters Patent No. 1,059,389, granted April 22,l 1913, upon the yapplication of Ernest Fred Bloss, of Cleveland, Ollio,` forV an improvement in yThe JAart of Treating Animal-Heads, errors appear in theJ printed speci-v i. tication requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 11, for the W'Ord "successively read successfully; same page, line 19, forlthe Word valve read value; and that the saidvLetters Patent should be read with these corrections 'therein that the same may' conform kto the record of the case in the Patent Office.

ofc. BILLINGS,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

yERNEST FRED BLoss. 

